Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Lan... - 9781800412439

Multilingual Matters

Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Second Language Writing PedagogyProvoking and Assessing Development\nAuthor(s): J. Elliott Casal, Lindsey M. Kurtz, Xixin Qiu\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Multilingual Matters, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781800412439, 978-1800412439\nSynopsis\nGenre-Based approaches to Second Language Writing Instruction have become a powerful and popular means of assisting second and multilingual writers in learning to engage in professional, pedagogical and academic genres that are often high-stakes. This book presents a framework for teaching second language and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors present three large-scale implementations, within a graduate legal writing context, a cross-disciplinary doctoral research writing context and a graduate mechanical engineering context, and demonstrate how the pedagogical and theoretical fram.